Hey everyone.
Any Muslims on here who might answer a question for me? At my store we have a lot of Muslim customers (or at least a lot of customers who wear what looks like a hijab to my untutored eyes) and today, one of them had an alarm go off on her phone. It was the call to prayer (which I recognized from the Travel Channel, though as a bit of an amateur sociologist, I should have already known it...drat).
I know observant Muslims pray several times a day, and at set times, and that their prayer ritual involves physical movements and that the words need to be said aloud. I also know that prayer must be done in a clean place.
So here is my question. If a Muslim was out in public in, say, a department store when prayer time came, where would he or she do said prayer? I know that in predominately Muslim countries, everything just kind of stops and everyone prays, but here in the USA, it seems like it would be hard to find a good place. The bathroom would be off-limits due to cleanliness rules, or at least I think so.
So...insight?
Any Muslims on here who might answer a question for me? At my store we have a lot of Muslim customers (or at least a lot of customers who wear what looks like a hijab to my untutored eyes) and today, one of them had an alarm go off on her phone. It was the call to prayer (which I recognized from the Travel Channel, though as a bit of an amateur sociologist, I should have already known it...drat).
I know observant Muslims pray several times a day, and at set times, and that their prayer ritual involves physical movements and that the words need to be said aloud. I also know that prayer must be done in a clean place.
So here is my question. If a Muslim was out in public in, say, a department store when prayer time came, where would he or she do said prayer? I know that in predominately Muslim countries, everything just kind of stops and everyone prays, but here in the USA, it seems like it would be hard to find a good place. The bathroom would be off-limits due to cleanliness rules, or at least I think so.
So...insight?
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